Technical Incompetence Boggles

Thursday, June 9, 2005 7:43 AM

Now I’m not the most technical of people and I don’t tend to pay much attention to special effects, so bear with me here.

I finally got my FF DVD back from the person who has been hogging it and only allowing me disc 2 and I watched the pilot for the first time in months last night.

The following sequence of thoughts ran through my brain pretty early on:

Eyes: “Ohh I LOVE that shot when the Dortmunder is reflected on Mal’s space helmet visor! Its so cool… *thinks* they must have had to fiddle around with the camera a lot to get that exact reflection in his visor!”

Brain: “You stupid son of a bitch! There is no spaceship to get a reflection of – they wouldn’t have needed to do special angles with the cameras, you berk (my brain can be very harsh!) – its all special effects, blue screen, computers and the like.”

Eyes: “Ohmigosh! Well, that’s even WAY cooler then!”

Now I appreciate everyone NORMAL must have realised this a long time ago, but me? Well, my jaw is still slack some 12 hours later as I continue to be utterly astounded at the superbness (which isn’t even a word –such is my incredulity) of the Firefly effects!

Anyone like to try and explain to me now how they do it???? Remember that I’ll need it in Captain-Dummy-Talk…..

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